Step 4: Save your video!

Wanna make a movie like the pros? Using green screen editing? It's all free (besides the actual green screen itself) with this awsome program. Debug Mode's WAX is a video/picture/music editor. It has a drag and drop time line like in Windows Movie maker, so you can add pictures and music to your video.

I made this video with this awsome program. (Part's of the bluescreen still is shown because I did not have an even lighting)

This demonstrates how you can make an invisability cloak with chroma key. Just replace the bluescreen image with a picture of your video's background.

Step 1: Download the software

Step 2: Start your Movie!

Once all set up, open WAX up and add your video file. Your file may need to be converted to work with WAX so try this free Video converter here and if that converter gives you troubles, try using this.

Step 3: Set the Chroma Key

Add the Video file to the time line and then add another video/picture to the timeline. Now select the tab called Video Plugins. Click and drag "Chroma key" onto your main video in the timeline (on your video - not under it like background video/picture).

it might be your lighting is your green screen lit all the way or is it dark in some areas, also it might be the shadow from standing in front of it you must me at least 4 feet away with the proper lighting

You mean to get the video to work with WAX? Convert it to AVI. If that doesn't work, look at my other Instructable showing how to use a another free Greenscreen program. That one actually works. WAX is a very crappy and glitchy program, in fact I'm just about to want to delete this instructable.

Help! I took my video and selected a background film but no matter what I try it won't work! It won't let me use any file format but AVI and when I do use AVI I don't get anything where the video is supposed to show up so I can't green screen it. The project I'm doing this for is due in 3 days Help!

I'm so sorry I made you wait till last minute! But the tutorial is complete! Get to it by click on the UPDATE NOTE on the top of this instructable. I hope the tutorial is useful, and I hope your project was a success!

Oh...!3 days...?I sure hope you can wait until later tomorrow (I typed this on the day you posted). Because I'm currently under construction of a new Instructable that shows how to add green screen with a better, higher quality, and has a lot more input/output format compatibility program. I'll even have a video tutorial on the page. So please hang in there...

The only problem is that the color picker only lets you pick one color. This could be a problem if you don't have perfect lighting. I've seen other programs that can let you choose a spectrum of colors from the video, making it look better. The only don't side to the program is that it is almost imposible to use. It take some one with an IQ of 1 billion to understand the program. :O

This is awesome, I didn't realize there was free software to do this. Great find and great instructable. Has anyone had any luck finding, or maybe somehow using this software, a way to do real time chroma keying (i.e. 2 video inputs to a computer with video capture cards and doing the keying)?